How to Bulk delete spaces using Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)

This article presents step by step instructions on how to bulk delete spaces in Confluence using the Confluence CLI app.

Instructions

Use removeSpace action to bulk remove spaces from the Confluence.

In order to remove spaces in bulk, we need to first create a csv file with the space keys. Execute the following command using getSpaceList action.
```
--action getSpaceList --file "spacelist.csv"
```
Execute the following CLI action align with the runFromCsv action to delete spaces. Ensure that the spacelist.csv has only space keys with the column name being, space.
```
--action runFromCsv --file "spacelist.csv" --common "--action removeSpace" --continue
```
Sample CSV file

The parameters used in the above actions are:

--space value refers to the space key.
--remove value refers to comma-separated list of space permissions.
--Common parameter string added to all run actions.
--continue value processing even after errors are encountered for run actions. Also used for some action to ignore certain errors like not found errors on remove actions.
--file value refers to path to file based content.

Test the action throughly in the test environment before implementing in the production.